Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker signed an executive order in response to federal efforts to create a database for autism research.

Democrat Pritzker, who has been one of the more vocal critics of Trump’s second administration, signed the order last week, ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced plans to develop a platform using Medicare and Medicaid records to ...

The head of a local program focused on treating patients with autism spectrum disorder said last week that he hopes plans for ...

For many experts, Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s promise for "pulling back the curtain" to find autism's causes in a few months is jarring — and unrealistic.

The order was in response to a move by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services earlier Wednesday to research and ...

"In fact, women had a nearly identical increase in risk of COPD for every 10 pack-years of cigarette use when compared with ...

The analysis showed that blood testing improved early diagnosis for a wide variety of cancers. Compared with standard cancer ...

Roughly 36 percent of Americans are enrolled in Medicare or Medicaid, meaning their sensitive data could be targeted.

The US Department of Health and Human Services on Wednesday unveiled a pilot program for the National Institutes of Health to ...